Navy Looks To Float ‘Tactical Cloud’
As government agencies edge closer to cloud adoption, one of the military services is attempting to take a more proactive approach to leveraging cloud technology to deliver tactical applications ...Full Article
Datacenter Revamps Cut Energy Costs At CenturyLink
It is probably telling that these days datacenter managers think of the infrastructure under their care more in terms of the juice it burns and not by counting the ...Full Article
How Microsoft Is Using FPGAs To Speed Up Bing Search
Microsoft has dug in for a long and perhaps uphill battle with search engine juggernaut Google, which has three times the reach in search. That means Microsoft has to ...Full Article
Univa Grid Engine Does Windows, Linux Containers
Grid Engine, the popular workload management tool for distributed computing environments, now does Windows. And it is also doing Linux control groups, or cgroups, containers, a technology that was ...Full Article
GAO Issues Split Decision on DHS Datacenter Contract
The cutthroat federal IT market virtually assures that every time a government agency awards a contract the losers will file a protest. The tactic has become standard operating procedure ...Full Article
Stat Czar Vince Gennaro Harnesses Baseball’s Mountain Of Data
The amount of data being captured, stored, and analyzed during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game has, like players' salaries and the net worth of big league franchises, exploded. ...Full Article
How Facebook Autoscale Cuts Cluster Electric Bills
The reason why online retailer Amazon started its cloud computing unit was not just because it wanted to break into a business selling raw compute and storage capacity to ...Full Article
The Beginnings Of Hyperscale At Google
Fifteen years ago, Google did what every startup on the Internet dreams of: It closed its first round of venture funding, put out its first press release, and took ...Full Article
MIT, Facebook Create Low-Latency Fastpass TCP Replacement
Data scientists from MIT and Facebook have proposed a centralized datacenter network that chucks the traditional Internet architecture used for packet transmission and path selection, replacing it with a ...Full Article
Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions ...Full Article
